Showing posts with label rob bell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rob bell. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Rob Bell, Hell, and the Party for Everyone (Part II: 10 Questions to Ask Him)
The following are 10 penetrating questions to ask Rob Bell, and those of his ilk, on the nature of the Lord Jesus Christ's own view regarding the ultimate state of man in the consummation:
"1. During one of his frequent confrontations with the Pharisees, Jesus told them, 'I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come' (John 8:21). Why did he damn them in this way if he knew perfectly well that eventually, along with the rest of humanity, they would be with him in heaven?
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Rob Bell, Hell, and the Party for Everyone (Part I: A Brief History of Universalism)
By now, to state that Rob Bell is a hell-denying universalist is almost a moot point. How ever he tries to evade the label by a well-crafted blend of ambiguous speech and smirking, it really just sticks.
But it must be noticed that there are actually two basic kinds of universalism. The first, "in its simplest form...claims that everyone goes to heaven immediately after death, regardless of what they have believed or how they have behaved; regardless, even, of whether they were religious or irreligious. R.C. Sproul summarizes this position: 'A prevailing notion is that all we have to do to enter the kingdom of God is to die. God is viewed as being so 'loving' that he really doesn't care too much if we don't keep his law. The law is there to guide us, but if we stumble and fall, our celestial grandfather will merely wink and say, 'Boys will be boys''." [1]
Bell's position is of the second sort:
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